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HMCS Warrior (R C03) was laid down at Saint John Shipbuilding in Saint John, New Brunswick on February 20th, 1970. It would be launched on August 26th, 1974. Warrior was commissioned on November 11th, 1975.

On June 17th 1985, Warrior putson yet more mileage departing from Esquimalt for East Asia. After making a stop at Tarawa in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Warrior and her battlegroup arrived in Sydney, Australia, on July 7th. After exercises, the group sailed to Singapore, Hong Kong and Subic Bay before making West Tokyo on July 24th. Six days later, the big carrier headed for home, arriving in British Columbia on August 15th.

In 1987, HMCS Warrior went into dry-dock once again, this time to be fitted with new electronic systems and decoys, being fitted with the Raytheon-Marconi Type 1032 electronic warfare system, and the addition of anechoic tiles and a synthetic hull coating, designed to reduce noise and eliminate corrosion.

Warrior would spend the first part of 1989 taken up by a refit that gave it upgraded electrical generators and a new electrical distribution system that allowed greater control of power movement. Fitted as such and with its escorts in tow, Warrior left Halifax on August 9th, for an Allied Pact exercise in the Caribbean. Eagle arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on August 18th and was visited by the Jamaican Premier along with other dignitaries, before sailing out to begin the exercise on the evening of August 19th.